Nathan O wrote:
I tried the Arch32-light package Xyne made, but I may have done something wrong, so I uninstalled it. Then I found out that, don't know how, my root password wasn't correct, had to readd gnome-session to > .xinitrc and resetup pidgin(including pidgin plugin tha twas installed) and Thunderbird. It is like I just installed all those apps and had to set them up it is really weird.
I am afraid of tempting that again :) So I thought maybe use mkarchroot -r /aur/root and setup the pacman.conf to use i686 and such. What do you think, will this method work good?
I just want to interject that the only way arch32-light would affect anything in your home directory is if you chose to mount it in the chroot and then ran something else in the chroot that alters files in $HOME. By default the chroot does not even mount /home and I have added several checks to the daemon and other scripts to prevent accidental wiping of data on mounted drives. Also note that it is possible to mount e.g. $HOME/home32 on the host as $HOME in the chroot. Btw, if anyone is interested, arch32-light no longer abuses the post_install function to set up the chroot... it now includes a script named "arch32initialize" ;) Regards, Xyne